111007 Outlaw
Junction
Tribute To
Steve Jobs Edition
I put a tribute
onto the first website (PC World) to tell my eyes that Steve Jobs had
passed on, but can't confirm it made it as the lappie's battery died
in the same moments.
So it's almost
just “trendy” to say any more now.
But to put it on
the record of these Outlaw Junction blogger pages, and as a sign of
Respect for the 20ths and early 21st century's greatest Visionary,
here are a few more thoughts in Tribute to Steve Jobs.
My second computer
was an Apple Macintosh, bought 2nd-hand in 1994 I think. A “2si”.
An amazing 80 kilobytes of memory, which I increased to some 120kb,
and 4kb, increased to 16kb of RAM. Or something. They might have
been Megabytes?
Amazing!
Got me going
though, on the electronic typewriter path, and advanced my and my
small group of Social Justice Warriors some way.
Since then, I've
had my own businesses pulled-out from under me, by the
“private-school sette”, been sent to the sinbin for advocating
Land Reforms, onto a government pension and thus, to living
marginalised, homeless and in penury.
So I can't afford
Australian excessive prices for any Apple product now, and survive on
what has to be said to be brilliant quality Toshiba L300 laptop.
But the desire
lingers for an Apple, or several of the products Jobsie envisioned.
Before I bought
that 2si (IIsi) I asked endlessly professional designers and people
in fields which employed computers as to which was better - a PC or a
Mac.
And always the
answers were that the Macs were far ahead of PCs, were faster, and
the software was far superior, for reasons I never really understood
nor now. Something about being based on “binary” digitising, or
so, therefore was a much simpler operating system?
But clearly Steve
Jobs was one of the greatest boons both to all industry with his
creativeness in perhaps the primary tool for the improvement of that
which America stands tall - Capitalism - in that his computers were
the great leap forward capitalism might have needed in the 1970s and
'80s.
This, if we
recognise what “capitalism” actually is.
Because “capital”,
is the term used for products which reduce time-consuming manufacture
and labour, which make the production of goods, and services, more
efficient.
Architects, for
example, who are over fifty years of age, will recall how slow and
laborious drawing their designs before the Apple computer hit their
world.
If we look at what
has been produced since the Apples first made it into the design
industries, amazing building designs, and any number of products that
were so different in looks and electronic “underbodies” if-I-may,
from anything prior to those years, we can see Jobsies influence and
contribution to advancing the environment, the city and urban
environment out of a comparatively very slow, staid and even
“dark-ages” or as he might have said “straight” era.
On “environment”,
the Greens movements around the western world were advanced by the
better-off “educated” people of conscience, who had time and
intelligence to motivate themselves and others to act to stop the
wanton slaughter of everything natural, and I hazard-a-guess and say
that most of them, in the 1970s and 1980s, would have been in the
wealth-brackets which enabled ownership of the best computers, to
further their Missions. So Jobsie's Apple computers gave to that
Noble Cause as well.
Well we might
wonder, “what if Steve Jobs was around when the British began the
“Industrial Revolution”?
Surely it would
have been far less destructive, far less polluting and
over-consumptive?
And, while perhaps
“oversaying”, it's as likely that the Apple Mac's OS, being as
efficient as it was/is, and simpler, went some way to inspire people
to seek the same in their own ventures, of looking to produce and use
the most efficient methods and machinery.
Bill Gates
deserves recognition in the arenas of advancing humanity's
communications and skills, and has done wonders there, no question.
But I think he
admits that Steve Jobs was a Legend, an Immortal, in his Vision and
Creativity in terms of moving the computer design and hands-on
practicability so far, and with it, the species, into the
post-post-post-modern 21st century.
Blokes like Steve
Jobs Ascend to Higher Planes after lives like he led, no doubt.
And, it has to be
said, that I see, from down-here-down-the-backward-pipe of
Anglo-Australia, the Independence and readiness and motivation which
has inspired so many, Jobsie included, of the United States of
America, was clearly what gave Steve his “Umpfph!” his
“Mojo”, his drive, enthusiasm and thus his Brilliant
Creativity.
I feel, that from
his cloud, he'd agree.
Buddha Blesses you
Steve Jobs, and so does America, I reckon....
Fly Free Steve
Lastly, were the
world's Environmentalists to offer awards to people who advanced
industry the most, each year toward more efficient, thus more
sustainable, thus to even actually aiding the natural environment,
they'd not be going wrong to do so in Honor of Mr Steve Jobs.
A little
“tongue-in-cheek”, but what else could such an Award be called,
but the “GOOD JOBS AWARD”?
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All
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Fighting
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